Tamer Abou-Elsaad

• Professor of Phoniatrics, ORL Department and Ex-Vice-dean for postgraduate studies, research, and cultural affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
• Dean of the faculty of Medicine, Nile Valley University, Fayoum, Egypt.
• President of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP).
• The Chair of the committee for preparation of the European Board Examination-Phoniatrics at the European Academy of Phoniatrics.
• Chair of the Scientific Committee of the Egyptian Board of Phoniatrics Medicine (A subcommittee of the Egyptian Council of Medical specialties).
• Committee Secretary of the Egyptian promotion committee of the assistant professors and professors in ENT, Phoniatrics, and audio-vestibular medicine of the Egyptian universities.
• He established the Phoniatric units in three Egyptian universities: Mansoura, Zagazig, and Kafr Elsheikh.
• Visiting lecturer at Malta University (2014 – till now).
• He established the curriculum for teaching phoniatrics to undergraduate and postgraduate medical students (master’s and doctoral degrees) at the Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. He developed the Professional Diploma in Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Children and Adults at the same university.
• He is the developer and co-author of two Arabic software programs (the Karawan program for the habilitation of hearing-impaired children and the “Takalam” program for rehabilitating aphasic patients).
• He is a reviewer and has many publications in peer-reviewed international and national journals in the different domains of Phoniatrics.